Pride
: As I walked through the cold World Trade Center PATH station today, looking at all the huge pictures of New York scenes, I wondered why there isn’t a picture of the World Trade Center towers. We should not act as if we are ashamed of our towers; we should flaunt them. Port Authority: Put up a big, proud picture of our towers.
5 responses to “Pride”
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Given the problems the Port Authority has with the families of some victims just getting the PATH trains back in service — they wanted the tunnels leading to the station rerouted out of the Tower 2 footprint, which would have meant about another two-year delay in restoring Lower Manhattan PATH service — I would imagine the PA would problaby have to commission some sort of survey about posting any photos of the towers in the station to gauge public response before they would take any action on your suggestion.
That doesn’t mean it won’t happen, but I would think the PA leadership is kind of skitterish right now about doing anything that might bring back the wrong memories of 9/11 in the minds of some people. -
Jeff, The PATH station is only a temporary one to be used until the mega transportation hub is constructed… which I think is projected for sometime around 2007. I heard there weren’t any plans for advertising or other art until then.
I’m sure the final structure will have photo representation of the WTC. -
Jeff: Drove past the site last weekend and thought the same thing. There should be giant pics of the WTC. Also saw the sculpture sitting in Battery Park and thought it makes a much better memorial than anything they’re going to build. It was there. It was a silent witness. And it survived.
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There are one or two pictures of the world trade center there amongst all the random aerial pictures – I believe they are down at the track level.
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Off the top of my head, I recall there being a wall-sized diagram (not a photo) of the World Trade Center “super-block”, including squares representing the footprints of the towers. To the left, past the Hudson News and the south bank of turnstiles.
All in all, one of the most striking differences between the new temporary station and the old one is that there’s art on the walls AT ALL. Before 9/11, every available surface would invariably be plastered with ads trumpeting Bloomberg Financial News or MSNBC or some other campaign targeted at Wall Street execs.
